Possibility of text extraction using coordinates

[sandeepreddy5]

Describe the bug

How would i extract text using coordinates or along with coordinates?

Code to reproduce the problem

with pdfplumber.open("example.pdf"
example.pdf
) as pdf:
for page in pdf.pages:
print(page.rects)

PDF file

example.pdf

Expected behavior

{'x0': 0.0, 'y0': 0.0, 'x1': 612.0, 'y1': 792.0, 'width': 612.0, 'height': 792.0, 'pts': [(0.0, 0.0), (612.0, 0.0), (612.0, 792.0), (0.0, 792.0)], 'linewidth': 0, 'stroke': False, 'fill': True, 'evenodd': False, 'stroking_color': (1, 1, 1), 'non_stroking_color': (1, 1, 1), 'object_type': 'rect', 'page_number': 1, 'top': 0.0, 'bottom': 792.0, 'doctop': 0.0, '<text': 'respective text'}

Actual behavior

{'x0': 0.0, 'y0': 0.0, 'x1': 612.0, 'y1': 792.0, 'width': 612.0, 'height': 792.0, 'pts': [(0.0, 0.0), (612.0, 0.0), (612.0, 792.0), (0.0, 792.0)], 'linewidth': 0, 'stroke': False, 'fill': True, 'evenodd': False, 'stroking_color': (1, 1, 1), 'non_stroking_color': (1, 1, 1), 'object_type': 'rect', 'page_number': 1, 'top': 0.0, 'bottom': 792.0, 'doctop': 0.0}

Environment

• pdfplumber version: [e.g., 0.5.22]
• Python version: [e.g., 3.8.1]
• OS: [e.g., Mac, Linux, etc.]

[jsvine]

Hi @sandeepreddy5; you can do this:

with pdfplumber.open("example.pdf") as pdf:
  for page in pdf.pages:
    for rect in page.rects:
        bbox = pdfplumber.utils.obj_to_bbox(rect)
        print(page.crop(bbox).extract_text())

[sandeepreddy5]

Thanks @jsvine for timely response, but with the above code text and coordinates for the second column is completely missing, only left side part of the text and coordinates are getting printed.
I'm providing the screenshot of the text which is missing.

[samkit-jain]

This is because that column is not wrapped in a rect object.